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I felt obligated. Robert De Niro is opening up publicly about his late father's struggles with his sexual orientation. It was my responsibility to make a documentary about him," the actor said in the interview. I wish we had spoken about it much more.

He adored me… as I do my kids. My mother didn't want to talk about things in general, and you're not interested when you're a certain age.

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I was not aware, much, of it. He was also quite hot, which is clearly a strong family trait. He was absent in some ways. All rights reserved. In a new article for Out magazine titled "Robert De Niro: Me and My Gay Dad," the year-old.

Robert De Niro says it was his “responsibility” to make a documentary about his father, artist Robert De Niro Sr., he told Out magazine in an interview. Discussing his father's sexuality, the Oscar winner said, "Yeah, he probably was [conflicted about being gay], being from that generation, especially from a small town upstate.

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For those not in the know, De Niro’s father, the visual artist Robert De Niro Sr., was gay and sadly closeted throughout his career. He added, "My father wasn't a bad father, or absent.

Though he did not spend a lot of time with his dad, who was divorced from his mother, poet and painter Virginia Holton Admiral, the actor said he was still close to him. While De Niro was rocketing to Hollywood's top tier, his father was living his final days as a starving artist in Paris.

In the documentary, which premieres June 9 on HBO, De Niro recalls memories of his father's despair over his sexuality and his overlooked body of work. He was very loving.